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I am stumped trying to drive my city over the 3.5k mark. Ive managed - through math and hours of planning - to make a multi-species city that doesn't immediately devolve into brawls, but I keep running into problems as I try to scale up, even with the bonuses I am getting from having races do what they are good at.

I went to the Wiki with some questions and calling it less than helpful would be generous, so now I am here.

And first, for the love of all the gods in Syx, can someone tell me what Pedagogy does!?

See, I suspect that my problem has something to do with children. My demographics overwhelming skew younger, with often around 1/3 of my entire population in the youngest age category for their species - across all species - and therefore not working.

This is really confusing to me for a number of reasons, but given Ive just dug my way out of a cycle of starvation, I cant really put my finger on just why the demographics feel so odd. Ultimately, I dont really think it is immediately important.

What is important, at least right now, is getting children to working age as fast as possible. To that end, I find myself looking at Daycares and their upgrade, Pedagogy.

Except, what exactly is "production rate" for a Daycare? Do the kids grow up faster? Can the Daycare handle more kids?

Everything else is explained well enough that I feel my problems are either my bad math or my bad judgements, but Daycare confuses me to no end.

Quick note: this is not me asking for help, I have seen the guides and have followed them, but I just need to vent - kinda like my computer.

I am genuinely confused by this game. In all my years of gaming, I have never had a game make my computer scream like DOS2:DE.

Helldivers Super Helldive on the bot front with Ultra settings during the attack on Cyberstan? Fan barely made a noise.

200 players on screen during a Planetside 2 battle? No problem at all.

Baldur's Gate 3? Well, funnily enough, that one actually caused me to raise some eyebrows because my temps seemed a little high.

Still, I think to myself, surely Divinity: Original Sin - a nine year old game - will be easier on my computer than BG3 (which I didn't have trouble playing, it just had a weirdly high temp).

I was so wrong. So very, very, wrong.

My computer black screened after 15 - 20 minutes. So I slash the graphics, but it doesnt help at all. Slash them again, no change. Put them all at their lowest settings and cap my framerate at 30: still 20 minutes to a black screen.

I take my computer apart and clean the fans. No change. I open up Afterburner and start throttling stuff. No change. Then I started breaking out tricks I havent used in years - not since I could afford a decent PC and learned how to clean it - I got bags of ice and made a DIY poor man's air conditioner and got it running up to 25 minutes.

At this point, I am suspecting something is very wrong somewhere, because there is no way in hell my computer is struggling this hard when the picture on the screen is below the level of unmodded Morrowind.

My next step is to head to the store and get some thermal paste and replace it (which, honestly, is something I need to do anyways) but this whole experience has been wild and I have never had a problem like this before with a game.

Especially not a game older than the computer I am playing it on.

Good morning,

I'll be honest, Magic Stone is a cantrip that confuses me so much. It seems, in my opinion, to be possibly the single weakest and most useless cantrip in the game - yet it comes with a massive list of restrictions that implies, at least to me, that it is actually somehow broken and amazing.

The first thing that comes to mind is that I do not understand why it doesn't add damage when used with a Sling. If I were to choose to cast True Strike, Booming Blade, or Green-Flame Blade, (by level 5) they would all add damage to the attack, not replace the attacks damage.

Slings deal 1d4 damage. Even at level 1, (1d4 + Dex) + (1d6 + Spellcasting) is hardly an earth-shattering combo. A Human Paladin and the right background with a Greatsword could potentially deal (2d6 + Str) + (2d8) + (1d6) from Booming Blade, Greatsword, and Divine Smite.

Worse, Magic Stone is a two turn set up without Metamagic. You can't use it, and attack with it, on the same turn.

This whole confused rant started with me thinking about a musket/true strike/magic stone combo for an Artificer. Which I now know won't work, but I just can't help but wonder:

What broken combo led to these restrictions on this spell!?

Good morning (or whenever it happens to be for you) everyone,

I recently came into a bit of inspiration (pun intended) and wanted to try and create a character whose gimmick and reason for being was to deny fate and control destiny (2024 rules).The build would really fully come online at level 8:

Species: Human

(Versatile: Purple Dragon Rook)

Background: Carouser

Class(es): Bard, lvl 4 (College of Creation)/ Wizard, lvl 4 (Diviner)

First Feat: Fey Touched with Silvery Barbs

Second Feat: Lucky

I really like the idea, but when I started looking into it, I started getting questions. For example: can I use Lucky on Portent? When I roll my Portent dice in the morning, can I use Lucky to reroll one?

Or, could I use Heroic Inspiration to reroll my Portent, and then use Lucky to give my Heroic Inspiration Advantage?

Can I cast Silvery Barbs on myself when rolling my first Portent dice to give my self Disadvantage, use Lucky to give myself three dice to choose from, then use the Advantage from Silvery Barbs on my second Portent roll?

On a D20 Skill Check with dynamic success, can I use Portent to give myself a minimum, then use Lucky to give myself a chance to get something better?

Can I use Bardic Inspiration (not my own, obviously) on Portent? What about Guidance? What about both!?

Can my Party alternate our Long Rests and use my Portent on their Portent?

If I use Heroic Inspiration on a roll that I would have Advantage on, do I still have Advantage on the Heroic Inspiration result? Can I use Portent to overrule a Heroic Inspiration dice, despite it saying I must use the result?

I know a lot of my questions are kind of dumb, but honestly I have never played a Human or a Diviner before, so I have no idea what I am doing here - I just want to control every dice at the table and make my DM sad.

Edit: can't find the posting rules anywhere, so I hope this doesn't get me removed, but here is the character sheet: Fatelord

I am not even sure sharing it like this will work, but I hope so.

Title says it all, really.

My party recently killed some people and the DM gave us this very cursed scepter. Now, one of its properties has an effect very similar to the Magic Jar spell and our DM had me roll a Charisma saving through for Nip-Nup, our kobold sidekick.

He didn't say the result, but it was pretty obvious that Nip-Nup failed because Nip-Nup was an aspiring surgeon who believed that all living things were filled with goop and that balancing that goop was how health worked, and then he somehow figured out that bodies didn't work like that.

Regardless, as I am playing a very snooty and racist High Elf, my character did not notice in the slightest.

I identified the scepter and immediately noped at ever attuning the thing, but the important question for our next session is: would my Identify spell have told me that the scepter was still attuned?

Would I have known they survived?

Title says it all, really. Although, a couple of corollary questions, if objects can have a "width" in time, would we be able to tell? After all, our observation is in the present.

Second follow up, if something has a "width" in time, could you set up a set of events that are... and please forgive the strangeness of my words here, presently happening in the future?

And, a related question, while I understand why time travel into the past would be impossible practically - because everything else is at a different time regardless of when you are - why can't we, and again forgive my lacking language, "delete" things by pushing them backwards out of sync with time?